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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Breaking down claims Stephen Miller's wife, Katie, left him for Elon Musk
In late May and early June 2025, a rumor spread on the internet that the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, had left him for tech magnate Elon Musk, who had recently announced his departure from his role as the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency's public face. Some people online said that the relationship between Katie Miller and Musk had started with Stephen Miller's consent, an arrangement described as a "throuple." For example, one user on X shared the rumor (archived): The claim further appeared on YouTube and TikTok. This was not the first time the claims appeared. User @ on Bluesky also relayed them: (Bluesky user @ The post read: Oh I am not sh**posting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad The post on Bluesky had received 7,600 likes and 3,200 reshares as of this writing. The same rumor appeared several times on Bluesky, but also on X, where the official account of the Democratic National Committee tagged Miller in its post of a single empty chair in a supposed hotel room in reaction to rumors that Miller's wife had left government to work for Musk in the private sector (archived): The empty chair represented a meme known as the "cuck chair," a chair on which someone supposedly sits while they watch their spouse have sex with someone else. This post had amassed 2.1 million views and 32,000 likes as of this writing, further spreading the unsubstantiated claim that Miller had cheated on her husband with Musk. Snopes has reached out to the Miller couple and Musk, seeking details. However, because we were not able to confirm or disprove the story, we have left it unrated. The rumor started as Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of SpaceX, announced his departure from DOGE. Bluesky user Snyder (to whom we have reached out for comment and await a reply) referenced a New York Times story published on May 28, 2025, which indeed referenced Miller criticizing Musk on X without naming him. Miller posted on X (archived) in response to Musk lambasting the "One Big Beautiful" budget bill the U.S. House of Representatives had voted on, which experts, including analysts at the Tax Foundation, said would cause the budget deficit to balloon. The article read: However, Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, shot back at Mr. Musk on social media without naming him. Mr. Miller asserted that the bill would reduce the deficit — despite multiple independent analyses saying otherwise — and noted that the cuts made by Mr. Musk's team were unrelated to the spending bill. Lower down in the thread on Bluesky, Snyder linked to a story published on Feb. 27, 2025, in Wired, which Snyder said "strongly implied throupledom." The story explained that while Stephen Miller had assumed the position of White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, his wife had been appointed as "top communications official at DOGE," directly with Musk. Citing an anonymous Republican source, the story went on to suggest that this had been by design: The Millers are seen inside Trumpworld as glorified babysitters for Musk, tasked with ensuring he stays within bounds, insofar as that's possible. "He gets a lot of grace," the first Republican said of Musk. "Many people aren't nervous, because Stephen Miller is deeply involved. And Katie." This Republican compared Musk to a preteen child. However, the Wired story implied more salacious suspicions about the relationship between the Millers and Musk without making them explicit: Musk's relationship with the Millers has become a subject of great intrigue in Washington as DOGE continues to wreak havoc on the federal government. Little is known about how often they interact outside of work and how the relationship grew over the late stages of the campaign into the transition. "If you can find out anything about Stephen Miller's social life, I don't wanna know the answer," says a longtime Republican operative who knows the couple personally. Given the anonymous sourcing, Snopes was unable to independently verify Wired's reporting. We have reached out to Snyder on Bluesky asking if the user heard the rumor independently. However, on May 28, 2025, a CNN report that Katie Miller had left DOGE to work for Musk full time gave new life to claims that the relationship between Musk and the pair was more complicated than it seemed. Citing three unnamed sources, CNN said Miller was now helping arrange interviews for Musk. Snopes was unable to independently verify CNN's reporting because it was based on anonymous sources. Though several internet users took it to mean that she had left her husband, with whom she shares three children, the reality is that Katie Miller had the status of "special government employee," which precluded her working more than 130 days per year for the U.S. government. As such, she would have had to leave government work regardless of which job she took on after her stint at DOGE. While she did not confirm the story, she had reshared on X one post by Musk regarding his departure from the government, as well as a screen capture of one of his quotes about DOGE, suggesting she may indeed be working as his spokeswoman. Two days later, on May 30, 2025, Musk stood in the White House Oval Office, speaking to the press alongside U.S. President Donald Trump about his return to the private sector. Musk appeared with a bruise around his right eye. While Musk said he owed his black eye to his son, whom he said he had instructed to punch him, the internet once again lit up with speculation (archived): The post had gained 2.7 million views and 41,000 likes as of this writing. Snopes reached out to the Millers as well as Musk asking them to provide further details. We will update this report should they respond. "'Big Beautiful Bill' House GOP Tax Plan: Preliminary Details and Analysis." Tax Foundation, 13 May 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. "Elon Musk Bids Farewell to White House but Says Doge Will Continue." BBC, 29 May 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. Hamilton, Phillip. "Cuck Chair." Know Your Meme, 15 Nov. 2022, Accessed 2 June 2025. Klein, Betsy, et al. "May 28, 2025 - Donald Trump Presidency News." CNN, 28 May 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. Lahut, Jake. "Elon Musk's Takeover Is Being Aided by a Trumpworld Power Couple." WIRED, 27 Feb. 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. Pager, Tyler, et al. "Elon Musk, Distanced from Trump, Says He's Exiting Washington and DOGE." The New York Times, 29 May 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. Pogue, David, and Joe Walsh. "Elon Musk Says He's 'Disappointed' by Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' and What It Means for DOGE." CBS News, 28 May 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. Siddiqui, Faiz, and Frances Vinall. "Musk Explains His Black Eye, Says He Told Son X to Punch Him." The Washington Post, 31 May 2025, Accessed 2 June 2025. "Summary of Government Ethics Rules for Special Government Employees." 27 Aug. 2014, Accessed 2 June 2025.
New York Times
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Doctor Odyssey' Is a Dream Boat Doctor fantasy
'Doctor Odyssey' finishes its first season on Thursday at 9 p.m., on ABC, and as of press time it still hasn't been renewed (nor has it been officially canceled). My candles are lit; my fingers are crossed. I love this stupid — so stupid, oh God, stupid, stupid — show. The season thus far is available on Hulu. Joshua Jackson stars as Dr. Max Bankman, the doctor for the luxury cruise ship the Odyssey. He works closely — extremely closely — with Avery (Phillipa Soo), a nurse practitioner who wants to go to medical school, and Tristan (Sean Teale), a nurse. 'Love triangle' is too quaint a term, but 'throuple' is too resolved. Both men are in love with Avery, though neither holds her full attention. In the sixth episode, prompted by a nourishing goal-setting exercise, they have a steamy, adoring and mutually enjoyable threesome. In fandom parlance, 'shippers' are viewers who want the characters to get into a romantic relationship. And oh, 'Doctor Odyssey' has plenty of ship. I'm old enough to remember when a time when a devil's threesome on network television would have been on the news. But here on the high seas, everyone is so sexually liberated that the show loops back around to being wholesome. Sexy, sure. Dirty, no. 'Odyssey' operates like 'The Love Boat' in that each episode features new guests to both the ship and the show. Each cruise has some kind of theme, which inevitably leads to a series of medical crises, at which point our heroes take a brief break from all the sexual bliss and hobnobbing to save some lives. All the medical instruments and machinery are in a brushed gold instead of stainless steel because intravenous poles deserve glam, too. The show was created by Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken and Ryan Murphy, and 'Odyssey' feels like a lot of other Ryan Murphy shows, most especially 'Nip/Tuck,' the lush, bonkers plastic surgery drama that ran from 2003-2010. But where that show was framed by the recurring prompt 'Tell me what you don't like about yourself,' 'Odyssey' is a bacchanalia of self love, of acceptance, of validation. It can feel as if 'Nip' got a gentle-parenting glow-up, its luridness revised for the more empowered, enlightened standards of today. 'Odyssey' is in some ways the inside-out version of 'The Pitt' (streaming on Max), TV's buzziest doctor show. Jackson's Max and Noah Wyle's Dr. Robby are both brilliant and ethical leaders with high standards. They are both haunted by their experiences at the beginning of the pandemic, Robby by his mentor's death and Max by the fact that he was among Covid's earliest patients — he was hospitalized and in a coma, near death. Both Max and Robby cope admirably with a partner's reproductive choices. Both shows indulge in a bit of medical gore, and both use a sense of 'Oh no, we don't have the resources we need' to intensify the drama. In 'The Pitt,' it's for budgetary reasons; in 'Odyssey,' it's because they're at sea. But 'Odyssey' is only sort of a doctor show. It is better understood as a fantasy, and not just because of fan theories that the whole show is Max's Covid hallucination, or that the characters are all in purgatory or some such. This is a show where a straight(ish) man's No. 1 fantasy is monogamous marriage and child rearing, and not only is he a doctor and former Peace Corps volunteer, he is also always wearing an all-white naval uniform. He loves reality television and sees depth and significance in it, not just mindless fun. He loves teamwork. He once broke his penis — on account of its being so big and the lovemaking so vigorous — but 'the body is a miraculous healing machine,' he says, and the experience even made him a better doctor. He entices patients to shed their hypocrisies and walk in the light. He emerged from the pandemic as more caring, more joyful, more attuned to the world, more open. Even BookTok romances don't go this hard. And he's not the only, er, dream boat. The ship's captain (Don Johnson) tells Max that the Odyssey is 'heaven' for its passengers. That's true beyond the snazzy vacation of it all because the themed cruises also mean the characters are among their people, the like-minded folks who share their obsession with, say, little rubber duckies, wellness nonsense or May-December romances. The various liars and grifters always admit defeat, and on the rare occasions that someone dies, you always get ample warning through corny slow songs and gentle, predictable character beats. Much of the fun in 'Doctor Odyssey' comes from its guest stars, who this season have included Kate Berlant, Bob the Drag Queen, Margaret Cho, Gina Gershon, Cheyenne Jackson, Margo Martindale, Fred Melamed, Amy Sedaris, John Stamos and Shania Twain (who recurs), among many many others. Everything is done in good fun and usually in gay rococo fun. The only true ailment here is shame, and Max and Co. have so many ways to treat and alleviate it. All the sex here is free of danger, coercion or violence, and all forms of love are studied and treasured. I have no idea what's coming in the finale, and while some fans are anticipating a twist, I think 'twist' requires a kind of torsion the show is not capable of because it isn't anchored to being any one thing. It's already dopey and dreamy and diffuse, whatever plane of existence it's on. It's the beauty of being at sea: You can head off in any direction.
News.com.au
14-05-2025
- Politics
- News.com.au
The Greens float a return to their roots with throuple leadership
The Greens are considering a return to their collective roots with a throuple leadership option involving a trio of three female leaders. reported last week that Sarah Hanson-Young and Mehreen Faruqi were firming as the leading candidates to replace Adam Bandt Questions had emerged over whether Greens Senate leader Larissa Water wanted to take on all the controversy that goes with being the leader. That left two likely candidates – South Australian Sarah Hanson-Young and the deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi. But there are now fresh reports that the Greens could declare all three women co-leaders. In other words, a political throuple act. It's not as weird as it sounds given the Greens never had a leader at all for many years until Bob Brown got the gig. The 2025 Australian Greens leadership will be decided by the party room at a date to be determined but if history is a guide a leadership contest would break with tradition. The Greens have never held leadership vote for the top job The Greens have never had a ballot for the leadership since the inception of the party and the leaders' have always been elected unopposed. Twenty years ago Tasmanian Bob Brown was elected unopposed as leader, prior to this they did not have a party leader, preferring a consultative model of government. In 2008, Christine Milne was appointed as the Australian Greens first deputy leader. The Greens did have a deputy leadership spill in 2010 following the 2010 Australian federal election. The contest was between Senator for Tasmania Christine Milne and Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young, who was critical of the Greens supporting the minority Labor Gillard government. She lost. In 2012, Bob Brown announced he was retiring. Christine Milne was elected unopposed. Adam Bandt and Sarah Hanson-Young contested the deputy leadership. Sarah Hanson-Young lost again. In 2015, the Greens got a new leader, Victorian Richard Di Natale. Once again he was appointed unopposed. In 2020, he retired and Adam Bandt was elected unopposed. Shell-shocked Greens Senators are reeling After the leader Adam Bandt lost the seat of Melbourne in the election the party now has one MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown who holds the Queensland seat of Ryan. Despite going backwards in the lower house, the party's 11 Senators means Labor will be reliant on them or the Liberals to get the 39 votes required to pass legislation. That makes the Greens the key voting bloc Labor will need to deal with to pass laws. After campaigning with influencer Abbie Chatfield and a giant toothbrush, Mr Bandt said after the election that he had no regrets despite recording a 4 per cent swing against him in Melbourne. 'Today, millions of people have voted Greens with hope and ambition,'' he said. 'We have secured the biggest national vote in our history. 'And together we have kicked Dutton out.' Abbie Chatfield reacts Influencer Abbie Chatfield, who campaigned with Mr Bandt during the 2025 election said she was crying tears of joy on election night after it emerged that not only were the Liberal Party struck by a total wipe-out, but Opposition Leader Peter Dutton had lost his seat. 'First of all, I'm okay with this outcome,' she said. 'I wish Adam Bandt would have kept his seat. But obviously the greater good was to keep Dutton out. Now that was achieved, that was the main goal.' PM urges the Greens to 'look in the mirror' But Anthony Albanese has urged the Greens to 'look in the mirror' before complaining about the culture at Parliament House in a brutal take-down. Outgoing Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather said that Parliament House had a 'sick culture' and suggested it was a toxic workplace. 'He should have a good look at the way he asks questions in the parliament and maybe what he needs is a mirror and a reflection on what he is no longer in parliament,' Mr Albanese said. 'So I think it is a bit rich for him, of all people, who has been rejected by his own electorate after just one term, and indeed, the seat of Melbourne is very much under a cloud, is the best way you could put it. 'His attitude – this is a guy who stood before signs at a CFMEU rally in Brisbane, describing me as a Nazi.' The outgoing Greens MP accused the Prime Minister of targeting him with political abuse. 'Every time I stood up, I screamed and yelled at,' he told Triple J Hack. Here are the 11 Greens Senators who will decide the party's next leader: Senator Larissa Waters (Qld) 2011 – present Veteran Senator Larissa Waters is currently the Greens Leader in the Senate and national spokesperson on Women and Democracy. Before entering politics, she worked as an environmental lawyer. The Canadian-born politician made headlines in 2017 when she was forced to resign from parliament over the dual-citizenship crisis. 'I'm living in Brisbane/Meanjin with my two young daughters, the younger of whom caused a bit of a stir when she became the first baby to be breastfed in our federal parliament,'' she says in her official Greens biography. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (SA), 2008 – present South Australian Sarah Hanson-Young famously pulled out a dead salmon from underneath her desk last year in a protest against a government 'stitch-up' over environmental laws. Hanson-Young then said: 'On the eve of an election, have you sold out your environmental credentials for a rotten, stinking extinction salmon', before pulling out a large, dead fish wrapped in plastic. She is the longest-serving Greens Senator after entering politics 17 years ago. Senator Hanson-Young also launched defamation action to force a male MP to pay her $120,000 in damages after she accused him of slut-shaming her after a feud in the Senate when he told her to 'stop shagging men.' Senator David Shoebridge (NSW), 2022 – present David Shoebridge, 53, is a former barrister. He was elected to the Senate as the party's lead candidate in New South Wales at the 2022 federal election and is active on parliamentary committees. Highly experienced, he previously served in the NSW state parliament for over a decade and is a public accountability campaigner. In June 2020 a part-time member of Shoebridge's staff was charged with defacing a statue of James Cook in Hyde Park, Sydney outside of work hours. He refused to sack the staffer due to the actions being taken outside of work hours. Senator Peter Whish-Wilson (Tas), 2012 – present An environmental campaigner who fought against the Tamar Valley pulp mill, Senator Whish-Wilson is an economist and a lifelong surfer. In 2016, he proposed that an army sniper should be used to stake out a beach in Tasmania's north west to protect penguins by shooting dogs. 'I think it is the only thing we can do here,' he explained. 'Our party has spoken to Parks and Wildlife, [and we need to do] what they did in Sydney and bring in a sniper, bring in an army sniper. He proposed that dog owners should be warned in a letter drop that their dogs will be shot if found wandering on the beach undersupervised. 'If your dogs are going to be down there, they're going to get shot, this is what we've had to do in other areas,' he said. Senator Nick McKim (Tas), 2015 – present Asylum seeker campaigner Nick McKimm unleashed on a climate sceptic Liberal National Party rival telling Matt Canavan: 'Shut your mouth – people are dying because of … sociopaths like you.' The Tasmanian senator said: 'I'm usually an optimistic person but I just want to say …' – prompting Queenslander Mr Canavan to interject, 'You hide it well.' 'Mate, you can shut your mouth,'' Senator McKim replied. Senator Jordon Steele-John (WA), 2017 – present Since his election in 2017 Senator Steele-John has advocated for disabled people, including the establishment of a Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Disabled People. Senator Mehreen Faruqi (NSW), 2018 – present Last year a judge ruled One Nation's Senator Pauline Hanson breached a racial anti-discrimination law by telling Pakistan-born Senator Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland. Faruqi sued Hanson in Federal Court over a 2022 exchange on the social media platform X, then called Twitter, under a provision of the Racial Discrimination Act that bans public actions and statements that offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate people because of their race, colour or national or ethnic origin. After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Faruqi, deputy leader of the Australian Greens party, posted, 'I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.' Hanson, the leader of the One Nation party, replied that Faruqi had immigrated to take 'advantage' of Australia, and told the Lahore-born Muslim to return to Pakistan. Senator Dorinda Cox (WA), 2021 – present The Western Australian Greens senator was accused of bullying behaviour last year and issued an apology citing 'challenging conditions both politically and personally'. 'There have been many challenges during my first three years in office including the Covid epidemic, taking on the First Nations portfolio alongside the Voice Referendum, and leading many significant committee inquiries,' she said in a statement. 'All while establishing and recruiting two office based teams to secure my six-year term with the ambition of an effective, safe and supportive work environment. 'As the employer, I take responsibility for any shortcomings in what has occurred during this period and I apologise for the distress this may have caused.' 'There are parts of the reporting that reflect staff grievances that were not presented to me, or that were assessed and not progressed by the independent Parliamentary Workplace Support Service,' she said. Senator Barbara Pocock (SA), 2022 – present An economist, Senator Pocock was one of a number of MPs and senators who handed back their access to Qantas' prestigious chairman's lounge in the name of integrity. She was instrumental in establishing the Senate committee inquiring into the consulting industry. Senator Penny Allman-Payne (Qld), 2022 – present A former high school teacher and am an active member of the Queensland Teachers' Union, she entered parliament in 2022. Senator Steph Hodgins-May (Vic), 2024 – present She was preselected by the Greens to replace Janet Rice upon Rice's retirement in the first half of 2024. An environmental lawyer, she argued that government inaction has caused Australia to become a global pariah when it came to issues around the environment. She is also an advocate for Australia increasing its foreign aid budget and to focus more on international development.
